Birthday girl talks about violent shooting

Partygoers B.T. Tucker, left, Mariah Boulden, 18, center, and Lank, who wished to only be referred by his first name, talk to the media Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 outside Mariah's home where two people were killed and at least 20 others injured late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area in Houston. Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said the gathering Saturday night that drew more than 100 people, most of them 17- to 19-year-olds, became a “birthday party gone wild.” (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, J. Patric Schneider)

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Mariah Boulden,18, stands outside her home where two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area, authorities said. The shooting broke out about 11:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529. Nov. 10, 2013 in Houston.

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Mariah Boulden,18, stands outside her home where two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area, authorities said. The shooting broke out about 11:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529. Nov. 10, 2013 in Houston.

Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the Chronicle

Mariah Boulden,18, stands outside her home where two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area, authorities said. The shooting broke out about 11:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529. Nov. 10, 2013 in Houston.

Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the Chronicle

Mariah Boulden,18, stands outside her home where two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area, authorities said. The shooting broke out about 11:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529. Nov. 10, 2013 in Houston.

Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the Chronicle

Mariah Boulden,18, stands outside her home where two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted during her birthday party in the Cypress area, authorities said. The shooting broke out about 11:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529. Nov. 10, 2013 in Houston.

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Harris County sheriff's investigators remain on the scene Sunday morning after a late-night shooting at a teen birthday party left two dead and at least 22 others hurt in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529.

Photo By Anita Hassan/Houston Chronicle

Parent waits on a child at the scene of a Cypress-area shooting.

"It was my party," said Mariah Boulden, wrapped in a white sheet and standing on a sidewalk splattered with blood near her front door.

Saturday night, while she had walked out to invite some neighbors to the party, her brother and others continued with pat downs at the front door of her Cypress home. Two men refused to be searched and walked away, she recounted Sunday morning.

From what she's pieced together, the two jumped a neighbor's fence then walked through her back gate.

Just as she was walking back to her house, Boulden said she heard gunshots. She ran to the front door, but it was locked. A cousin grabbed her and they ran down the street, calling 911.

"I didn't expect none of this to happen," she said.

Two people were killed and at least 22 others were wounded in the shooting.

Partygoers scrambled after the first gunshots rang out about 11 p.m. in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek Drive, near Fry and FM 529.

Officials with the Harris County Sheriff's Office are looking for two suspected gunmen.

More than 100 people, mostly young adults, were at the house, officials with the sheriff's office said.

On Sunday morning, after detectives took down crime scene tape and a fire truck washed away the largest blood stain on the cement, neighbors walked past, taking silent looks at the house with a garage door hanging skewed and bowed out, speckles of blood for hundreds of yards down the street. Friends struggled to find nearby parking, but gathered in groups on the front lawn or in an emptied living room. One friend and neighbor drove up, her young son jumped out and handed a woman in the front yard two dozen donuts. She said thank you and waved at the driver as the boy scrambled back into the backseat.